If something like this came up at Anglo American, there would be a flurry of damage control because you don’t want that negative connotation with your brand.Ĭlive was so chilled. I remember sitting with my COO and Clive Angel, asking Clive, “what is this? Aren’t you concerned?” One of my friends at Anglo American was head of communications. My relationship was a little bit different from Mosilo’s because I didn’t come from Regiments – I came from Anglo American and I was headhunted. I had met Mohamed Bobat because he interviewed me. In February 2016, you must remember there was that article about Mr van Rooyen’s special advisors – Mohamed Bobat and Ian Whitley. What was coming out in the media – in the public domain – was enough to make me very concerned, also coupled with the actions and the behaviour that I saw within the organisation. I don’t understand why they did, especially with what was coming out in the media. I got to know these people quite well and some of them stayed for like a year after. But during that tenure, I brought on my COO and there were one or two other consultants that I think also on-boarded, that didn’t come from Regiments. I got to know quite a lot of people at Trillian, although I was only there for three months. Maybe it’s just a bad time to be looking for a job. We all read that letter – Andre de Ruyter’s response to me. I think it’s maybe true, but that’s the kind of response that you get. I think I would be a good match in Eskom because I understand the environment so well”.Ī week later, I get a reply from the group executive of HR at Eskom saying it’s with regret that they don’t have any positions that match my skills. I come from the mining industry, so I understand large capital investments of large engineering infrastructure. He replied to my email and to that reply I said, “look, here’s my CV. I wrote that infamous letter in October last year to Andre de Ruyter. Let me give you an example – and I’m not throwing a stone at anybody. There’s a lot of big wigs – chairs of boards – of huge financial institutions that give us a lot of commendation but when you forward your CV through, you just don’t hear anything. But I’m guessing – I’m not a psychologist. I think that makes people maybe feel a little bit more fearless in making these big decisions. One of the things that all whistleblowers that she interviewed actually had in common is something that surprised me – everyone had experienced some form of trauma earlier on in their lives. It’s not necessarily just women because in her book there are quite a few males who have ‘blown the whistle’. But one of the things she found is that all whistleblowers seem to have a very strong mother figure in their lives. She interviewed about nine people, so the sample size is not huge. She came across some interesting common threads between whistleblowers. , in her conclusion, tries to figure out if there’s a whistleblower recipe. – Jarryd Nevesīianca Goodson on what makes a whistleblower: From battles with her mental health and personal security to issues in obtaining employment, the former Trillian CEO told the BizNews Power Hour about the other side of the whistleblower coin. After speaking out against corruption, Goodson had her entire life turned upside down. The disgraced pair – who both left the company in 2018 – were wooed by all-expenses-paid trips to Dubai to sweeten the deal.“I admire your single-minded courage to speak up for the truth and the law, even when this was clearly at considerable cost to you and your family,” wrote Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter to former Trillian Management Consulting CEO Bianca Goodson. Meanwhile, it was also revealed that Singh and Molefe met with Essa in the weeks leading up to this payment, which ultimately explains the extent of state capture within Eskom. The conclusion of this contract was entered into without any tender process.” Dodgy Eskom executives named McKinsey were remunerated by Eskom as if the contract was for the entire period of six months. “In three months until January 2016 inexplicably McKinsey was paid over R70-million while Trillian was paid R30.6-million. The judge for this case has slammed all involved in this unholy trinity for their “impropriety”. Payments from this deal – made in 20 respectively – are the ones that have cost Trillian more than half a billion rand: Money they have been ordered to repay to the stricken utility giant. McKinsey, who specialise in studying businesses and finding ways to improve business or save them money, were hired by Eskom for R1.6 billion Immediately afterwards, an agreement was reached where Trillian received at least R266m from the contract, despite doing minimal work.
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